Astronauts Finish First Spacewalk to Fix Pump on ISS

Two astronauts from the U.S. space agency completed their initial work faster than planned during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station, but a problem with a spacesuit has postponed the second spacewalk by one day. The problem came up in the cooling unit of veteran astronaut Rick Mastracchio's spacesuit when he re-entered the ISS airlock. NASA says the problem is not related to a situation in July when a still-unexplained problem nearly drowned an Italian astronaut whose...

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